Detroit School District Still Needs Teachers
171 unfilled teaching positions, down from 250
Charters Schools ‘Segregated’? Children Only Attend If Their Parents Choose
That’s a challenge for opponents dredging up invalid Jim Crow associations
Raise For Detroit School Union Official Exceeds Salary Of Many Teachers
Union dues for district employees $18.45 per month
Grosse Pointe Restricts Nonresident Students, Board Member Joins ‘Charter School Segregation’ Chorus
He reports district near Detroit now walking back its restrictive policies
Fire Chief Calls City’s $92 Million Pension Debt ‘Responsible’
Midland’s underfunding has been going up, not down, with only 70 cents on the dollar saved
Critic Cites Performance In Other States To Attack Michigan Charters
Implies that charters with 9 percent of state enrollment drag down the other 1.5 million students
Detroit Schools’ Annual Budget Balanced With Emergency Bailout Money
$10M in so-called state transition-cost dollars helping keep the district out of deficit
Productive Skills, Not College Degrees, Key to Economic Prosperity
A critique of ‘talent mercantilism’
Why There’s a Revolving Prison Door
New research suggests that strict parole rules contribute to inflated prison populations
How to Solve Government Employee Retiree Health Insurance Costs
Freeze salary schedules until health insurance is fully funded
Change Careers to Teaching? Take the SAT
New bureaucratic rule constricts educator pipeline
Another Pension ‘Spike’ For Outgoing Teachers Union President
$4k added to the $92,000 annual lifetime boost he previously orchestrated
Unions Complicit in Retirement Benefit Crisis
But trying to shift the blame to Lansing anyway
Ex-Con Working as Nurse Gets Denied License When Moving to Michigan
Great Lakes State has some of the most stringent laws in the nation
Michigan’s Largest Teachers Union Has Lost 25 Percent of Its Members
MEA’s decline much greater than its ‘worst fears’ after right-to-work allowed teachers to leave
Assessing Michigan’s Alleged Teacher Shortage
Over 100,000 qualified teachers are not employed by a public school
Michigan’s Largest Teachers Union Funds Leftist Activist Group
Michigan Education Association gave Progress Michigan $71,000 this year
Are Any Left? 100 Years Of ‘Michigan Teacher Shortage’ Headlines
Media keeps publishing the dubious claim, so public school establishment keeps repeating it
State Ends Fiscal Year With Surplus After 12 House Republicans Defeat Tax Cut
Tax cut proponent: It shows Michigan government can afford to take less
Taxpayers Shouldn’t Subsidize High Income Housing
Millions going to build luxury developments
Accountability? Nothing Appears Closer To Eternal Than A Failed Detroit School
Watch what they do, not what they say — or even what the law requires
Union Head Questions Corporate Pay, Ignores Own Officers’ Huge Salaries
Teachers union president gets $492k in 2017, after years of pay freeze for teachers
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